Gareth Porter, author of Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare, discusses the genesis and development of the anti-Iran hysteria.(We apologize for a few audio hiccups early in the discussion.)

Can we conceive of a private, non-governmental system of law? If so, what would it look like? Bob Murphy joins Tom to discuss themes in his book Chaos Theory.Bob is the author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal, and other books, and he blogs at Free Advice.

Joseph Salerno, academic vice president of the Mises Institute and author of Money, Sound and Unsound, talks about the Fed, the Great Depression, currency wars, deflation, and why governments hate cash.

Jeff Herbener, department chairman of economics at Grove City College and a faculty member at Tom's Liberty Classroom, discusses the problems with standard "public goods" analysis. Check out Jeff's article archive at Mises.org.

Gary Chartier, author of Radicalizing Rawls: Global Justice and the Foundations of International Law, makes an argument for private-property anarchism, and explains about how the project of John Rawls -- among the most important political philosophers of the 20th century -- can be made market-friendly. Follow him on Twitter and at his blog.